> On 12 Jan 2017, at 9:49 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il>
wrote:
>
>
>> On 12 Jan 2017, at 1:47 AM, Karl Young <karly at kipshouse.org>
wrote:
>>
>> I inherited a lab that has a few hundred hosts running FreeBSD 7.2.
>> These hosts run test scripts that access files that are stored on
>> FreeBSD 6.3 host. The 6.3 host exports a /data directory with NFS
>>
>>
>> On the 7.2 hosts, I can see the exported directory:
>>
>> $ showmount -e 6.3-host
>> Exports list on 6.3-host
>> /data Everyone
>>
>> And access it with amd
>>
>> $ ls -l /net/6-3.host/data
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Jun 4 2009 git
>> drwxr-xr-x 4586 root wheel 83968 Nov 2 04:50 home
>>
>> I'm trying to retire the 6.3 host and replace it with 9.3 (I know
it's
>> old, but it's the best I can do for now).
>>
>> I export the /data directory on the 9.3 system, and I can see it on my
>> 7.2 hosts.
>>
>> $ showmount -e 9.3-host
>> Exports list on 9.3-host:
>> /data Everyone
>>
>> But I can't automount it:
>>
>> $ ls -l /net/9.3-host/data
>> ls: /net/9.3-host/data: No such file or directory
>>
>> If I manually mount the exported directory, it works:
>>
>> $ sudo mount -t nfs 9.3-host:/data /mnt/data/
>> $ mount | grep nfs
>> 9.3-host:/data on /mnt/data (nfs)
>>
>> $ ls -l /mnt/data
>> total 4
>> drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 512 Dec 20 17:41 iaf2
>>
>> I've spent some time on Google, but haven't found a solution.
I realize
>> these are very old versions, but I'm not in a position to upgrade
them
>> right now. My last resort will be to use /etc/fstab to do the NFS
>> mount, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers on how to resolve this.
>>
>> -karl
>>
>>
>
> if you changed the export file on the server after you tried to mount in on
the client,
> and will not realise this, if that?s the case, usually rebooting the client
helps.
>
s/and/amd/ ^%$# hate spell checkers
> my .5 cents
>
> danny
>
>>
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